Essential reading. Very insightful. One of the very best books on The Beatles, their music, and their times.

Gould—an accomplished musician himself—really gets inside the structure of the songs he writes about. And as I've found happens with Ian Macdonald's marvelous A Revolution In The Head, Gould helps unclog...

A |The story of The Beatles is certainly one of the great folk tales of our time—more than worthy of being conceived as a grand opera or great film—so archetypal are the iconic moments and story elements. The innocents on a quest, their hopes and dreams, the un-looked for guide, the worldly-wise teacher, the heroes and villains encountered along the way, a string...